Conservative Quotes - Page 40

• On some issues, I'm a staunch Conservative — like curtailing greenhouse gas emissions so that we can Conserve the environment.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Issues, Environment, Gas

  Twitter post from Dec 12, 2014

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• The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The good gray conservative obliterating snow. Smoothing (in one white lacy euphemism after another) out all the black bleak angular unangelic nauseous ugliness of the blasted sterile world: dry buds, shrunken stone houses, dead vertical moving people all all all go under the great white beguiling wave. And come out transformed. Lose yourself in a numb dumb snow-daubed lattice of crystal and come out pure with the white virginal veneer you never had.

  Sylvia Plath

  Moving, Weather, White

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.73, Anchor

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• Santa Barbara people are conservative-not like in L.A., where everybody wears rhinestones on their glasses to show that they own an airplane factory.

  S. J. Perelman

  Airplane, Glasses, Santa Barbara

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• When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Thinking, Errors, Democracies Have

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 12, p. 330, 1977.

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• The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Philosophical, Pay The Price, People

  E.L. Doctorow (2015). “Citizen Doctorow, Notes on Art & Politics: The Nation Essays 1978-2015”, p.56, The Nation Co. LLC

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• A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have

  Woodrow Wilson

  Hands, People, Progress

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1976). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which is necessary to encourage and keep alive the arts.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Art, Men, Desire

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.207

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• The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a stable social structure thrives not on triumphs but on reconciliations.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Struggle, Home, Triumph

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• Reagan's approach will achieve one of the basic goals of the conservative: Things remain basically the same. The rich stay rich and the poor stay poor, or even a little poorer.

  Mike Royko

  Goal, Littles, Rich

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• The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women don't really dress; they are too conservative, as it's always a question of money. In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Strong, Powerful, America

  "Fashion Spotlight: Jean Paul Gaultier" by Anne Slowey, www.elle.com. January 21, 2010.

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• I didn't want to get married - I thought it was like a cult! It seemed so conservative and unnatural.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Want, Married, Cult

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• I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.

  Paul Hawken

  Country, Thinking, Political

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• I don't recognize this new brand of Republicanism that's afoot now, which I consider to be very reactionary, not conservative in many respects.

  Hillary Clinton

  Brands, Reactionaries, Republicanism

  "'Goldwater Girl': Putting Context To A Resurfaced Hillary Clinton Interview". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. March 26, 2016.

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• I suppose that the first organized effort that might be considered something of civil rights was the Young Negroes' Cooperative League. Now, this offers certain contradictions at this point, perhaps, because it was stimulated by the writings of George Schayler who, at this point, is considered an arch-conservative, I understand.

  Ella Baker

  Writing, Rights, League

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• Ford O'Connell, the guy in the sound bite we just played, he's the guy who said that nominating a conservative presidential candidate would just postpone the GOP nightmare.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Guy, Presidential, Sound

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I know some African-Americans, they happen to be conservative, they're successful. They, of course, have raised their kids, and kids can't escape in school the history of slavery and all of the horrible things that happened in the past. But they weren't raised that way, and they are not raising their kids to be imprisoned by that. They're raising them to be the best they can be today, to take advantage of the opportunity that exists today.

  Rush Limbaugh

  School, Kids, Successful

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I'm too fiscally conservative for the Democrats and too socially liberal for the Republicans, like 75% of the American people.

  Angus King

  People, Republican, Democrat

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• Actually, I think what is being shown as beauty in fashion magazines right now has become particularly ugly. This kind of straight, blonde very conservative.

  Nan Goldin

  Fashion, Thinking, Blonde

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• Some people have become [in U.S] a lot more conservative but I can't really speak about that because I wasn't there. I feel compassion for their pain but it distresses me to see them all become more patriotic.

  Nan Goldin

  Pain, Patriotic, Compassion

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• Pennsylvania might be a parochial state, but it's not a homogeneous state. So, even among just Republican voters, to be able to pull that off, when you have very moderate voters on one side of the state and more conservative in the middle, shows that Donald Trump has very, very broad support.

  John Brabender

  Support, Pennsylvania, Might

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Donald Trump actually is a pretty big-government conservative. He doesn't see eye-to-eye with them [the Kochs] on trade.

  Jane Mayer

  Eye, Government, Bigs

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'm not a conservative or a free market advocate or a Republican because, you know, I want people to like me.

  Daniel Garza

  People, Want, Republican

  "Libre Initiative Spreads Free Market Ideology To Latino Voters". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 13, 2016.

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• I've been working since I was 14, and my father, being very conservative, has always been strict about my having a savings account.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Father, Saving, Strict

  "New Again: Michelle Pfeiffer". Interview With Colleen Kelsey, Peter Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

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• Every gal and every boy that's born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Boys, Alive, Littles

  "Ruth Bader Ginsburg on becoming ‘Notorious’". "PBS NewsHour" with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. October 10, 2016.

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• Captain Fantastic touches on that [division]. You meet this family that lives off the grid in the woods and you go, "Oh, it's some kind of liberal utopian fantasy. The enemy is gonna be all these conservative types that they'll probably run into, and that's going to be the story."

  Viggo Mortensen

  Running, Enemy, Woods

  Source: www.progressive.org

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